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After over 3,000 pages worth of build-up, this is the book that finally delivers the ultimate showdown between Harry and his evil nemesis, Lord Voldemort. Harry and his friends Ron and Hermione are on the run from a hostile puppet government, on a secret mission to demolish the barriers Voldemort erected between himself and his demise. For most of the book, the three of them are utterly alone, cut off from friend and foe alike, and the solitude around them lets us see even greater nuance in their already delicately crafted relationships...
...power, if not the arrogance, of prosecutors would grate on Davis throughout her 12 years at the D.C. Public Defender Service, three as its director. Now a law professor at American University, she has made a mission of exposing that power--on radio and TV and in a new book, Arbitrary Justice--with hopes of reining it in. Her task, lonely at first, has gained support since North Carolina prosecutor Mike Nifong lost his job and his law license for hiding evidence in the now defunct rape case against Duke lacrosse players. (On July 26 he is scheduled to face...
...that was secret at the time. Gonzales and another White House official made the bedside visit because Ashcroft's deputy, Jim Comey, who was acting as Attorney General while Ashcroft was under medical sedation, refused to continue the wiretapping program. Gonzales declined to say who sent him on the mission and denied that he was trying to pull an end run on Comey. Instead, he suggested, he approached Ashcroft because a group of eight bipartisan lawmakers had earlier in the day urged the program's continuation...
...listened, but more pushed forward, disrupting the attempt at order. During their last candy mission, someone told me, one of their hosts beat the children away with a belt...
...Volunteers from a U.S. Navy ship were visiting this rural African village on a goodwill mission. They handed out treats everywhere they went; the program was dubbed “Candy for Africa.” Each time, the intended gesture of generosity spiraled out of control...